"I remember very well and particularly with hindsight of the prince's huge accomplishments and yet seeing how great he was with everyone he met and how interested he was in people, and also the occasional, funny off-the-cuff remarks, which will remain with me for a long time."

"Astronomy has to be your life, not just your job, or you are unlikely to do well or be happy. If you are going to get married…then you must find a partner who is a true partner, because it is impossible to do everything yourself."

"I was working in PR and marketing for a small chain of hotels in the North West producing brochures"

"You either like people or you don’t."

"No, well, I don’t know, I have so many cousins in all directions, I don’t know what a cousin feels like."

"Felix is a 'downright civilian', dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing; an utterly unpleasant impression he makes - a man idling in such times.","

"I can’t say a thing in Russian; I find English hard enough. I know four words in Russian: Da, Net, Spasibo, Dushka (Yes, No, Thank you, Sweetheart)."

"The Queen has never sat there and said anything that makes her miserable, has she? She’s always got on with it."

"Amongst us were persons with disabilities as well as persons with different personalities and sexual orientations. We all learned together and enjoyed equal opportunities in a fully inclusive environment that made learning interesting for all."

"My application to the Mandela Washington Fellowship was driven by my quest for an experiential learning program that would improve my capacity in providing educational services and opportunities to children with disabilities and adolescent girls."

"My favorite academic experience occurred during our personality and leadership assessment session. As a Choleric with keen attention to details and work performance, I have thought to myself a few times that I was excessive, but learning about my strengths and confirming its significance to my work was empowering. I am now deliberate about my choice of support teammates."

"I had the opportunity to visit schools for the deaf, libraries for the blind, and art therapy centers. These visits afforded me a firsthand appreciation of how serious the inclusion of persons with disabilities mattered to the American people."

"During the six weeks academic residency, I and 24 other Young Africans from 21 different countries were hosted by one of the top universities in the United States; Drexel University, located at the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

"I grew up in 1960’s in Winston Salem, NC. in a low-income, single parent household. At the time, the schools in Winston-Salem were segregated but, due primarily to the dedication of my teachers and my own motivation"

"I received a very strong public school education. For as long as I can remember, even before I started school, I had a love for mathematics. I think there was something about both the logic of math and the fact that in math there was a “right answer” that appealed to me (clearly before I knew about stochastic mathematics)."

"For a long time, I wanted to be a math teacher, but in high school I started to think about working in jobs where I could “apply” mathematics (though I only had a vague idea of what that meant)."

"In 1980 I joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ. Eventually I had a 25- year career at Bell Laboratories and, after the breakup of the Bell System, AT&T Laboratories."

"I would have been a ‘lousy imperial princess’, because I would rather shovel sh-- than have to be very charming and dressed up on a daily basis."

"During my time at AT&T I learned the importance of mentoring. I have mentored hundreds of people over my career, first at AT&T and, more recently, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), where I continued my career after leaving AT&T. I am very proud of the impact I have had on the careers of so many people."

"Leaders need to build an army of believers at every level in every function who have a D&I mindset to reshape the norms.”"

"We have to design ways to decrease people’s fear and increase their trust to have conversations that’ll allow us to do business with each other and drive results. D&I isn’t a problem business has to solve, but rather a conversation that business needs to facilitate. If we’re going to get sustainable solutions to D&I, we have to address it at the societal level."

"You can only change the parts of the world you can touch, so focus on what’s right next to you. If we’re all doing that, it’ll spread.” Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) was the part of the world McCann touched, so that’s what she set out to change."

"Fear is the root of all forms of exclusion, just as trust is the root of inclusion.”"

"“You’re not only working for yourself and your family, but for others who follow you that you may never meet.”"

"When at a fork in the road, pick the most interesting one"

"“If I’m not there to understand, define, and share what I’m learning, the opportunity for those behind me would not be possible.”"

"It is now 18 months since the Post Office began operating independently of Royal Mail."

"The Post Office is going through a period of great change and innovation. We are resolute in our determination to build a flourishing modern business but one that remains the bedrock of communities across the country."

"The world has changed, we realise we must get ourselves out there more. Word of mouth only goes so far, but if you don't have a social presence, then to some extent you don't exist."

"It is the desire to satisfy people and I can’t always be sure I've done enough or got it right. Sometimes it is impossible, but I own my mistakes, which I think is important as well."

"Rural women are the backbone for families, communities and nations, but they're suffering the worst impacts of climate change and conflict and go unheard in legislation and remain unprotected and unsupported.""

""People care desperately for the Post Office. Very often it’s the subpostmaster or mistress that notices that an elderly customer hasn’t turned up recently and finds out what’s happened to them.”"

"I was given much information and, as the Inquiry has heard, there was information that I wasn’t given and others didn’t receive, as well. One of my reflections on all of this is that I was too trusting. I did probe and I did ask questions and I’m disappointed where information wasn’t shared."

"There’s no point the Government subsidising the Post Office just to be an anchor in the community, we have to provide services so that everybody uses us too."

"Already … we’ve seen a big improvement across the divisions,” she says, adding: “It’s about bringing the Post Office back into the modern world so it can be relevant for people now as it was 30 years ago."

"Despite the expansion of online shopping, until recently some post offices were still opening from 9am to 5pm, closed half-day Wednesday, closed half-day Saturday, closed all day Sunday. And if you don’t offer the hours customers need, they take their business elsewhere."

"I think our whole field of educational research in South Africa is relatively young. There is so much we need to know more about, and from the empirical base of our schools, classrooms and learners. I think the transition years from primary into secondary mathematics what teachers need to know and do to teach across subjects at that level are very poorly understood. This is critical in mathematics where the move to greater abstraction and working with symbolic forms emerges. It is also a critical point where we need to know more about what it means to learn and teach mathematics in a dominant minority but extremely powerful language (English)."

"Broadly my time is shared between supporting the professional development work we do in schools, and doing and supporting the research that is linked to this work, with a large proportion of time supporting full time doctoral students in the project. I teach less than I did before. I travel internationally a fair amount, to conferences and for other international work I do."

"Interesting as I think about this, Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation had an immense effect on me. I happened to read this while I was working on my PhD, and it provided a different gaze on what it meant to learn and live in a language that was not your mother tongue, or as she called it, the language of her heart and emotions. I have since read much of her work, the most powerful of which was After Such Knowledge: Meditations on the Holocaust. The latter, a philosophical and social commentary rather than an academic text, has contributed significantly to my understanding of the social world, as well as some of my own location in history."

"You have to be vulnerable. You have to recognize you don't know the answers. Good ideas can come from anywhere"

"We need really curious leaders"

"because then you don’t make assumptions, you don’t take diversity views for granted."

"Once you get a big role, that's the starting line, not the finishing line. So it's really, how do you understand what the need is from your organization and in society?"

"If you don't know as a leader what your license to operate is from society, then you've got tunnel vision. So it's understanding the context, what society expects, what the organization needs, and having to adapt yourself and evolve.” Asked about the way forward"